Control data transfer rates for a serial ATA device by throttling values to control insertion of align primitives in data stream over serial ATA connection
US7747796B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 20, 2007 |
| Grant date | Jun 29, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 3, 2028 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F13/385
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Systems and methods for performing data transfer rate throttling o improve the effective data transfer rate for SATA storage devices. The data transfer rate is diluted by inserting ALIGN primitives when data is sent. The receiving device simply discards the ALIGN primitives. Therefore, the receive data FIFO does not fill as quickly and fewer flow control sequences are needed for flow control to prevent the receive data FIFO from overflowing. An advantage of using the ALIGN primitives instead of conventional flow control is that the round-trip handshake latency is not incurred to disable and later enable data transfers.
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